Happy new year! Welcome to the starting point for the Stampin' Addicts Occasions Mini Catalog Blog Tour. Thank you for visiting. I hope you have a lot of fun & end the tour inspired! To visit Stampin' Addicts at any time click here or cut and paste their address into your browser: http://www.stampinaddicts.com/
I created two cards and two 3-D items using Garden from the Heart (pg. 9 of the Occasions Mini Catalog which you can link to now by clicking on the catalog image at right plus this set shown in a post on this blog from a couple days ago). Be sure to read through till the end for some delicious and enticing "blog candy"!
All recipes for my samples plus instructions for the basket will be posted here Monday once the blog tour is over. I invite you to bookmark my blog so you can visit me again. Let's begin!
Note: I must have taken these photos a half dozen times and I could not get them to be as vibrant as they are in "real life" so squint your eyes and I hope they "pop" more for you! 😉
Happy Mother's Day – Straw Hat Card
Birthday Butterfly and Gardening Basket
Dried Herbs/Embrace Life Card
From My Garden Bag with Scallops
Stella's Yummy & Scrumptious Blog Candy! Leave an (appropriate) comment identifying your favorite of my four submissions above and you may win the Holiday Collections stamp set shown in the column at right. When the blog hop ends, I'll use a randomizer to select one winner and announce it on Monday, January 4 here on this blog.
The next stop on the blog tour is on Sharon Field's blog found here where she creates with the Pinking Hearts Border and Corner Punch. Or you might have come here from the 23rd stop on the tour which is Debra Burgin's creativity with Chocolate Bunny here.
READ ME: If you are having any problems with any one blog stopping you in your tracks (a couple customers have contacted me about this) then go to this thread in the Stampin' Addicts site to see the summary – with links – of the order of things. No one's blog should be missed so don't let a roadblock stop ya! Just go around it.
Enjoy and remember that stamping is cheaper than therapy!
I love the bag with the “From my garden” tag, but all of them are great! TFS!
I love the color combination in the From my Garden Bag. I also love the rhinestone brad on the straw hat and how you used the top note ends on the Embrace Life card. Thanks for participating and making all of these! I know it’s a lot of work and I appreciate being able to enjoy all of your fun creations!
The little stitching on the Dried Herbs/Embrace Life Card is charming!
I LOVE the bag ! Can’t wait to order “From my Garden” stamp ! Great Job!!
My favorite is the dried herbs/embrace life, It
reminds me of gathering fresh herbs and drying for use in my kitchen.
You did a lovely job with the new stamps and your projects are so pretty!
I love the bag with the butterfly.
Beautiful projects!! The stitching on the Dried Herbs cards adds the perfect touch! I have to say your From the Garden bag is my favorite – that little blue bird is so cute!
I love your use of colors and papers! Such a fun set to work with!
This garden set is just great (SU makes it easy for us, don’t they?). Hmmmm, I think I love the garden basket best.
I love the Mothers Day card. The colors are fatastic.
I think the dried herbs card is my favorite, but they’re all adorable.
I like the embrace life card. Not too frilly and there is something about the drying herbs that appeals to me!
Wow! Your projects are all wonderful! I absolutely adore the Mother’s Day card! The hat is very elegant. TFS!
I like the Garden Basket birthday card best.
The dried herbs card is my favorite. It’s the color combinations that make it!
Beautiful dried herb card! I love all the texture on it.
Your Bithday Butterfly & Gardening Basket is my favorite.
Great projects Stella! What a way to start the new year. My favorite is the straw hat mother’s day card. The rhinestone brad is such a great touch.
I love how you used the Top Note Die on the dried herbs card. Brilliant! All of your projects are stunning!
I just LOVE the Mother’s Day card with the straw hat! Thanks for sharing your talents with us.
Like them all-but my favorite is the Mother’s Day card 🙂
I like the Birthday Butterfly & Gardening basket. Can’t wait to see the recipe on Monday!
Nice projects Stella. Thanks for sharing your creativity. My favorie card is the Mother’s day card. I love the straw hat and the rhinestone brad accents. The Blog Tour is a great idea!
My favorite is the Birthday Butterfly & Gardening basket, although they’re all really nice!
Beautiful projects, Stella! The dried herbs card is my favorite.. the colors and all the elements of the card just work so wonderfully together.
I love the Mother’s Day card best. The coloring is beautiful and I love the bling on the hat! The other projects are great too.
Stella – beautiful work. My favorite is the straw hat card.
My favorite is the Straw Hat Card – I love the color combination. This set reminds me of another SU set that came out maybe 7 or 8 years ago. The Blog Tour was fantastic – lots of wonderful ideas. Thanks Stella!
I love the Mother’s Day straw hat card the best. It would be perfect for my mother who loves purple.
It’s so hard to pick just one.But I like the Birthday Butterfly and Garden Basket because I am a gardener and I love butterflys!
Great job Stella!
All very cute, but my favorite would have to be the first, the mother’s day card. I like the fun colors and the stripes!
All wonderful prijects. sigh 🙂 Now I’ll have to buy this set.
I love the top hat die and all projects using this
lovely. makes me wish it were spring rather than sub-zero!
I absolutely LOVE the basket! It would be great to put candy in it or cards or notepads. LOVE IT!
I like how you used the rhinestones on the straw hat card. That’s my favorite!
Hey Stella, I love Birthday Butterfly and Gardening Basket for a couple of reason. One I love making little boxes and 3D things. Also I really like the pattern paper that you chose.
Thanks for the blog hop it was fun to check out the others blogs, not just for their participation but also for all their other work. I could spend hours looking at all of them!
Resa
Great job on all your projects. I think my fav is the straw hat mother’s day card. Don’t enter me in the drawing for the blog candy though. I have that set and would rather have others have that much more of a chance to win it.
I love the brown/blue combo and stamp set on the Garden bag…very pretty! 🙂
Great projects, Stella! I love the straw hat… I just love everything!
I like the dried herbs because that is how I dry mine (at least the dog can’t get up that high to eat them).
I love the mothers day card. But the bag is very cute too… You just might inspire me to get back into stamping soon.
What a neat new blog…thank you for introducing us to it!
My favorite of your projects is the Dried Herbs/Embrace Life Card. I really like the little hanging herbs. It reminds me of that retired set that had the little pots of herbs…so cute 🙂
Thanks for a chance to win & happy new year!
I love card #3. It reminds me of the time that I spent in France and all of the dried flowers. Beautiful! Happy New Year and I have marked you as a favorite.
They ALL are adorable, but I think my two favs are the basket and the bag, with the bag being the bestest of the best! I love the color combo and it just looks like something I could do and use a lot! Thanks for sharing your ideas with us!
Diane
Pretty projects, Stella! I especially like the From My Garden bird bag and how you did the ribbon on it–niiiice!
I absolutely LOVE the From My Garden…..From my Heart bag!!!!! YOU are so creative!! Thanks for sharing your great talent!!
Have a Blessed New Year!!Huge Hugs from Ohio!!!!
Lori 🙂
My favorite is the Dried Herbs/Embrace Life card with the Top Note dies. I’m looking forward to seeing your recipes on Monday.
Susan
Such pretty projects! I especially LOVE your dried herbs card!!!
very nice colors, the herb card is my fave – nice and soft, CAS design
I love the Mother’s Day card. The straw hat and the colors are so pretty. Thanks for sharing. The blog hop is a great idea too!
LOVE all of em…and love those little finishing touches like the rhinestone on the hat…CUTE 🙂
I loved all your items,but my favorite is the Mother’s Day card. The rhinestone accent is gorgeous. You are an awesome demonstrator!!!
The From the Garden bag is my fave.. I love everything about it.
I love the embrace life card. I really like the colors and the simplicity! You offer such wonderful inspiration.
Thanks…
Princess Patty
I like the way you combined the dried herbs & embrace life.
Thanks Stella! Great projects!!
What beautiful cards!
Great projects! I loved the first card, I have really looked at this set over and over.lol Great job!
hi – i just found your blog on the hop! i love your dried herbs card. beautiful!